Undergraduate Literature Courses and First-Year Seminars
Staff
Co-Director, Project Director Teachers for a New Era Programs, Director, Writing and Rhetoric Program
434-982-5205
Managing Director of the Teaching Literature for Liberation Project, Assistant Professor of English
Cristina teaches as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at UVA. Her courses span nineteenth-century literature, gothic fiction, history and theory of the novel, and gender and sexuality studies. Cristina’s scholarship on Victorian literature and culture has appeared in ELH, Modern Philology, and Victorian Studies.
Associate Director
Natsuko Rohde joined the CLA team in April of 2017.
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Co-Director, Project Director Teaching Hard Literature, Associate Professor
Associate Professor
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Project Directors
Project Director History, Associate Professor, Indian Ocean History, Rouhollah Ramazani Associate Professor of Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies
I specialize in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and Islamic world. My book, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is a legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, told through the story of the Arab and Indian settlement and commercialization of East Africa during the nineteenth century. It was the recipient of the J.
(434) 924-6423
Project Director Education, Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education, Affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies
Derrick P. Alridge, a former middle and high school social studies and history teacher, serves as the Philip J. Gibson Professor of Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies. An educational and intellectual historian, Alridge’s scholarship examines education in the U.S. with foci in African American education and the civil rights movement. His books include The Educational Thought of W.E.B.
Project Director English Language and Literature, Professor of English, Director, Scholars Lab
I enjoy teaching courses in Victorian fiction, women writers, Gothic, narrative theory, auto/biography, travel, and other topics, uniting my research interests and willingness to adapt technology in the classroom with my insistence on critical and writing skills.
434-924-6665
Project Director Religion, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Co-Director of the Religion, Race & Democracy Lab
Co-Director, Religion, Race & Democracy Lab
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Project Director Classics, Arthur F and Marian W Stocker Professor of Classics
Marc Selverstone is an associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center and chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program.
434-924-6539
Project Director Science, Professor of Astronomy
Research Interests: Education and public outreach, ISM, UV and radio astronomy
434-924-4890
Project Director Foreign Languages, Professor of Spanish
Ricardo Padrón is a Professor of Spanish who studies the literature and culture of the early modern Hispanic world, particularly questions of empire, space, and cartography.
Project Director Art, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director, Architectural History
Lisa Reilly is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London and has worked extensively in the United Kingdom.
434-924-1316
Project Director Miller Center, Associate Professor and Chair of the Presidential Recordings Program
Marc Selverstone is an associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center and chair of the Center’s Presidential Recordings Program.
434-243-8983
Project Director School of Education and Human Development, Professor, School of Education and Human Development, Chair, Department of Curriculum, Instruction and Special Education
Recipient of the 2003 Larry Metcalf Exemplary Dissertation Award of the National Council for the Social Studies for “Deborah Partridge Wolfe’s Contributions to Social Education.” (Fall 2003)
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